What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them

She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.

It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and shouldn't it be that way?

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.

America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.